"During the past night, from 11 p.m. Moscow time [20:00 GMT] on April 14 to 7 a.m. Moscow time [04:00 GMT] on April 15, air defense alert assets intercepted and destroyed 85 Ukrainian fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles," the statement says.
The drones were shot down over the Belgorod, Voronezh, Rostov, Samara, and Saratov regions, the Republic of Crimea and the waters of the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea.